Re: dhclient dependency on bpf ?

[Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:
> 
> > Offcourse, i enabled 'bpf' and i'm keen to know what is the
> > reason for 'bpf' dependency ?
> 
> Please see
> 
> http://ftp.isc.org/www/dhcp/doc/References.html#anchor3
> Search for "Berkeley Packet Filter" and "BPF" and read thaty paragraph.
> 
> (It should be included in every ISC DHCP distribution as 
> doc/References.html.)
> 
> I don't know what the equivalent replacement for BPF (or if there is) 
> for DragonFly.
> 

Jeremy, thank you for sharing the excellent link.

The documentation says,
. ..
dhclient needs the BPF pseudo-device to program a filter, that
brings in only the DHCP packets.
. ..


thanks
Saifi.